Heron Lake Plateau to the door, in the floor

She seemed apologetic for frightening him so, and immediately Lucca was horrified. No, no, he wasn't scared! She didn't have to be sorry! He opened and closed his mouth a couple of times as she spoke, trying to force words out but his body wasn't cooperating. He gave up after the moment passed, resigning to the fact that the girl would most likely just assume he was a scaredy-cat then.

He did follow her gesture towards the lake once again, however, and that's when the boy finally choked out, "yeah!" She thought he was cool? Or that the birds were cool? Either way, a beaming smile made its way onto his features as he finally chilled and got a good look at the other. Her fur clashed with the monochromatic aesthetic that most of the other wolves on the Plateau bore, but in a good way. He had never seen fur so vibrant — even more so than Colt's or that blonde girls'!

"Oh, uh, one couldn't fly," he said, glancing back at the flock, realising with a start he had lost sight of it. Why did geese all have to look the same? "I was gonna hunt one for the new babies," he added before frowning. "I, um, dunno if they will like geese, but Raven might!"